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Security2026-06-08 · source-backed
Meta confirmed a flaw in its AI-assisted account-recovery chatbot let attackers hijack at least 20,225 accounts between April 17 and early June. Ask the bot to change an account's email, and it fired a password-reset link to an unverified address. Meta only noticed on May 31 after high-profile takeovers including a Space Force official and Sephora. This is the cleanest cautionary tale of the year. Never wire an LLM agent to a privileged action like account recovery without a separate, hard identity-verification path. Agent convenience created a bypass that ran for seven weeks before anyone caught it.
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